Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-28
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EDS. RECORD UNION: Notwithstanding the
fact that the raisin lands of Fresno, and the
table grapes and orchards of Sacramento,
Placer, Yuba and Suffer counties, net their
5000 to $500 per acre, the world or, at least,
the people at the Last, do not know it. Is
it not then plain that knowledge of our
section is the main thing to push before the
stranger? A short time since an Eastern
man who stopped here said he wished to
be made sure that we could raise oranges
ard lemons, or be made sure that we could
not. He said that on the train on which he
came here, there was man who claimed
to be acquainted with all of California, who
said that never an orange had ripened
north OF San Francisco. And though he
and others on the train had read our citrus
papers, giving glowing account of our
citrus fairs" they were made to believe that
those papers were tissue of falsehood
and fraud, and that Sacramento was as cold
and snowbound as New England for six
months of the year. | took him in my
buggy, and 1t required but five minutes 10
convince him OF the facts. We saw bana-
mas growing finely, oranges of golden hue,
and a profusion of outdoor flowers that
tiudi TldoitTll CldIt III August.
His story was that the champion of South
ern California emphatically proclaimed
that that section only raised the raisin. the
olive, and orange, and that all claims to the
contrary were false.
How Is this impression to be overcome ?
The only way that | can suggest is to meet
these agents ON the trains from Omaha
west. 1t is nonsense to make signs of a
uniform hight; it is nonsense to move the
hay market 10 2 street. for no Eastern man
comes here to see the improvement. Doubt
less every sound business man of our CITY
thought, that of the one thousand per day
that are now arriving in Los Angeles, one
hundred would stop of here. But they do
not and they will not until the fasehood
OF the south is met with such force as to
convince the excursionist.
If anything is to be done this season il
has to be done quickly. Some say we want
the industrious worker-tLe man of few
thousand dollars that comes to stay. | saw
we want the capitalist who will put his
money into our banks and look around for
al investment and find it, Then his
money passes to another and circulates
here. North of Tehachipi we have room,
soil, water and climate for at least ten
thousand Pasadenas," but people do not
know il. There has not been hotel built
in Central California to attract an excur-
sionist; there has not been runner on
the road to inform them of our glorious re-
gion. All the luscious fruit Of the past
season that has been shipped East has been
credited to Southern California.
| would suggest that we send citrus ex-
hibit 10 Denver, Kansas City and Chicago
send it soon, and send money to advertise
it. Send good men to Omaha to work the
passenger trains that are coming this way
daily; send pamphlets of information, and
send column advertisement TO the Los An
gelcs papers, and keep it before the people
there, that we have millions of acres OF
land in Central California that is the home
of the orange, olive and raisn, as well as
Of every summer fruit, and that will weld
net income, When planted and in bearing,
of greater sum than the cost of the land.
Stop running down your neighbours prop
erty, and his methods, because he seems to
have chance to sell, when you would like
to. Pull together and to the same purpose,
and let that purpose be for success to all.
Sacramento. November 81, 1887. H.